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Preface: Enter to Grow in Wisdom Introduction: Play to Win 1. Outside Class: A History of American Children's Competitive Activities 2. More than Playing Around: Studying Competitive Childhoods 3. Cultivating Competitive Kid Capital: Generalist and Specialist Parents Speak 4. Pink Girls and Ball Guys? Gender and Competitive Children's Activities 5. Carving Up Honor: Organiz ing and Profiting from the Creation of Competitive Kid Capital 6.
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